EISPIRATEN

Post your sexy photos of rock piles!

This one was on Mt. Markham in October of 2013.

So disappointed...I was told there was a great cairn on Sawmill...I searched carefully, but couldn't find it...must have been hiding behind this thing...26 September 2014...

OldCoot

Do cairns have to be on summit? This was one of two on the way up Hoyt, 13 June 2013...

oldcoot

oldcoot wrote: ↑Do cairns have to be on summit?

Nope. They can be anywhere, but preferably in a mountain range.

Markham is a popular place for rock piles I guess. Here's Markham from a while back (and a dog)

That's a talented dog to stack rocks like that.

And yet he always looks unimpressed.

dima wrote: ↑And yet he always looks unimpressed.

A true artist is never satisfied with his own work.

oldcoot wrote: ↑This was one of two on the way up Hoyt...

They are very nice. This is looking down the Hoyt ridge in April 2016.



There was also a third one about five minutes from the summit.

Cool...

Who has the energy to build stuff like that while climbing something that steep...?

Well, there were plenty of rocks...

oldcoot

When is a cairn a Karen or a duck or a burial mound?

Sometimes Karen leaves a mailbox on top

Don't say duck to a long-time bird photographer who was told early in his hiking career to watch for the ducks marking the trail turnoffs, and wondered how they kept them from flying to other spots after being placed...

I still call them ducks, by the way...but no longer listen for quacking...

;o)...

oldcoot...

Does this count:

2008-03-09 somewhere near Mt. Lowe Campground

Here is a SEACARIN

I don't have any pics of cairns. Taco keeps kicking 'em all down before I can snap a photo,

URGE TO KICK INTENSIFIES

Taco wrote: ↑URGE TO KICK INTENSIFIES

IT'S GETTING SO STRONG

Here's Karen on top of Old Mt. Emma (5063'):
2009-01-25

In my neighbor's front yard...

The thread doesn't seem to specify that the cairn has to be in the San Gabes...


Descending Mount Langley with a giant cairn, plus Horseshoe Meadows, one of the Cottonwood Lakes, Trail Peak, Olancha Peak, and Old Army Pass. Back in 2015.

Does this count:

2008-03-09 somewhere near Mt. Lowe Campground

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@HikeUp - Not to go on a tangent, but I think you found a descendant of the long lost "camel bird," a distant cousin of the Switzeroceros:

jfr wrote: ↑The thread doesn't seem to specify that the cairn has to be in the San Gabes...

Until a year ago I used to live in Hidden Valley, just east of Reno tucked up against the Virginia Range. Decorating prominences with cairns is all the rage in the Virginia Range:





Out in the Black Rock Desert there's an attraction initiated in the 1960s called Guru Road with various memorials put up using local materials. Here's one celebrating the King:



Finally, the homeless of Reno and Sparks have a lot of time on their hands:

Here is a cairn I found on the ridge between Castle Canyon and the east fork of Rubio Canyon. If you look closely you can see the ramada at Inspiration Point in the upper left corner.

On Middle Fork trail.

Two rocks make a cairn, don't they? On the Knob.

Sunset Peak.

Looking through old photos I found this on the JMT southbound, about five minutes before reaching Timberline Lake. Not much of a directional guide although I did find the correct route.